[/quote]E-voting flaws put Florida in spotlight again
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-01-08

The U.S. House of Representatives seated Florida Republican Vern Buchanan last Thursday, essentially ending a contested election that has refocused attention on electronic voting machines and flaws in the widely adopted election technology.
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“ Both sides agree that thousands of votes were not counted and that those lost votes changed the outcome of this race. We need to find out exactly what suppressed those votes, and we feel that the rights of Florida’s voters to have their votes count – and be counted accurately – is paramount in this case. ”

Kendall Coffey, attorney for the Christine Jennings for Congress campaign

In November's midterm elections, Buchanan edged out Democratic challenger Christine Jennings in the race for Florida's Congressional District 13 by a slim margin of 369 votes, according to the election results certified by the state. However, Jennings and some voters in Sarasota County, the most populous county in the congressional district, have filed lawsuits contesting the results.

The problem? A statistically improbable number of people in the pro-Jennings county--about 18,000 or 13 percent of all voters--failed to register a choice in the race. An undervote--as such failures are dubbed--seldom occurs in those numbers. While many people decide not to vote for any candidate in a race, high rates of undervoting usually happen only in the less publicized races. Voters fail to vote in major races generally far less than 5 percent of the time, according to voting experts.

Moreover, voters that did not use the county's election machines had a typical chance of not voting in the race, failing to make a selection only 2.5 percent of the time. On the e-voting machines used by the county, however, the story was different: Nearly 15 percent of the people who used the iVotronic systems manufactured by Election Systems & Software failed to vote in the Representative race.
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It's always Florida.
This is a sad way to lose an election. I'm sure Jennings is furious.

1/8/2007 5:59:26 PM

it's more than just Florida.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070106-8563.html

Quote :

"A report on the November midterms released this past week by three different e-voting activist groups describes problems with electronic voting machines in 36 states."

1/8/2007 6:02:53 PM

who are the retards designing these systems?

1/8/2007 6:29:54 PM

its mostly criminals, republicans, and people who would fail out in the first year of any computer science program at state.

[Edited on January 8, 2007 at 6:36 PM. Reason : the answer depends upon the company]

1/8/2007 6:36:36 PM

well, if you hadn't put that last categorie in there, I would have blasted you for not including Democrats

1/12/2007 2:33:50 PM